Would of been 110mph, services without ATP^▸ (Automatic Train Protection) cannot run above 110 mph on ATP fitted lines (except Reading to Didcot) due to the setup of the TPWS^▸ (Train Protection and Warning System) equipment.

Nope, after Pewsey. 1J99 was (and is today as well actually) advertised for 1716 departing Trowbridge, this being 50 minute after it was originally (without diversion) due to leave Pewsey (1626).

This has the side effect of causing the train to be advertised online, and maybe at stations, as being over an hour late from Pewsey onwards. When in fact, as can be seen from the VSTP schedule on RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website), it will be just over 20 minutes late.

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) are. It looks like someone didn't do a very good job of matching the times of the Trowbridge stops with the times of the VSTP paths. 1J99 was set to be advertised on the CIS for 1716, that being 50 minutes after it should of left Pewsey!

The second one (track condition) seems to cover the Fairwood Junction itself and slightly after - 97 miles to 97 miles 2 chains (which is where the mileage changes to 111 miles 18 chains at Fairwood Junction.) Only half the line speed you would otherwise be going (without the other TSR of course) 

Those trains do actually terminate at Twyford on Sunday mornings, engineering works. Trains at that time of night won't be advertised as Twyford anyway, as there is no other services to Reading!

I was on this train from Plymouth, I think you've got your ends mixed up, the front set upon arrival at Plymouth was loaded and this was Coaches A-F. I can only presume that you mean the rear set (at the Buffers at Newquay) was not in use throughout Cornwall.

This train isn't normally a 9 car, it is booked an 8 car. As an 8-car from Bodmin Parkway to Plymouth the rear coach is locked out of use, it is permitted for the rear coach to be locked out of use and the set be in passenger service. However as a 9-car the rear 2 coaches are required to be locked out of use and as far as I am aware this isn't allowed in service and requires the whole set to be out of use. Therefore it was possible to unlock the rear set from Plymouth, with only the rear coach locked out of use until Newton Abbot - for the short platform at Totnes.

Named trains should be announced at all GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations, everywhere should have the same announcement clips. GWR did recently recorded the newest named trains as they had not been recorded before.

I've heard a great number of them announced: Atlantic Coast Express at Plymouth, Royal Duchy at Exeter, The Bristolian at Swindon, Red Dragon at Bristol Parkway, The Cheltenham Spa Express at Gloucester, Torbay Express at Paignton, etc.

You won't hear named trains announced in Wales as Arriva Trains Wales don't set them up to be announced. They can however announce them, back when the ex-Wessex stations used to have Ruth (the female english announcer), it used to announce them.

Atlantic Coast Express should appear on the screens, it is all linked, so if you setup a named train it will appear on the screens and be announced if the station has the ability to. (which it should)

Pembroke Coast Express should be in the system, but it relies on staff knowing that there is a named train,etc.

Mistake on the planners part, accidentally made the call a reverse activity.

Via Bristol Parkway of course to allow for this before a bank holiday weekend:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/V12269/2016/05/27/advanced

The CIS^▸ (Customer Information System) dosent use the NLC codes, it uses the TIPLOCs. Of which Buckfastleigh is BUCFAST. The CIS knows the names to be associated with each TIPLOC, and if no name is associated with it the TIPLOC will display on the screens.


Sounds exactly like what used to happen with the Frome train on the Thames Trains system.

If that is the case sounds like they stopped at the red signal after departing Clifton Down station, maybe the signaller stopping the train to tell the driver not to call at Redland(?), dangerous really as stopping there would indicate perhaps waiting a train to come off the single line.

South West Trains have updated their automated platform announcements, Southern use the same system (Except at a few principal stations - Gatwick) so I assume they have. Not sure about Arriva Trains Wales.

With regards to if original voice over artist is unavailable. You have 4 options:

• Find someone with a similar voice to recorded the new requirements
• Remove the voice all together (If it is part of a two or more voice system)
• Re-record everything in a new voice
• Don't bother in a situation like this, and don't announce the operators name

"Re-record the entire recording for that particular journey" as you said isn't possible as announcements are not recorded 'per journey' but just as recordings of individual phrases or words that can be put together in the order required.

Everyone keeps mentioning Glastonbury, but there isn't actually any extra services on the Saturday, leading to my opinion of the reason for the HST being taken off the Weymouth service being because of the closure between Cardiff and Newport - limiting the amount of HSTs that can come in from Landore depot in Swansea.

To add to what IndustryInsider has said, remember the platform faces at Bristol Temple Meads are longer than those at Reading (some almost 400 metres) and are classed as two separate platforms (Reading having A and B ends of platforms does not count - i'm referring to the Sectional Appendix). Also the platforms at Bristol are used by far more reversing services where there is a potential for a train to already occupying the other end of the platforms, having mid platform signals will mean trains won't need to be cautioned into the station with shunt aspect (two white lights) as is the case in this situation now.

The "markers" you describe at Reading are completely different, merely a car stop marker, guiding where to stop a train returning out of the station the same way and are nothing to do with the signalling.

The 'X' signs at Bristol Temple Meads are classed as signals and may only be passed with the appropriate authority - either a platform number on the indicators outside the station which is beyond the 'X' or permission from the signaller.

Do you count about a mile away as just short of the station then? I don't think I would...